Sonia Seneviratne studied biology at the University of Lausanne and environmental sciences at the ETH Zurich.

Since 2007, she is professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of the ETH Zurich.

Sonia Seneviratne is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

[5] Sonia Seneviratne was included in Thomson Reuters's 2015 list of the most cited modern scientists.

[6] She was the lead author on a 2014 article in Nature Climate Change that showed no pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes from 1997 to 2012.